investigative journalist Andy Kroll's upcoming book titled A Death on W Street about the murder of Seth Rich

See this 07/11/2022 message from Andy Kroll: 

Andy Kroll is an investigative journalist who's lived and worked in Washington since 2010. He spent five years working on A Death on W Street, his upcoming book about the murder of Seth Rich, the conspiracy theorists and partisan operatives who exploited that tragedy, and the Rich family's pursuit of justice against Fox News.

 

Seth's parents and his brother granted Andy unprecedented access for the book, sitting for dozens of hours of interviews, sharing private writings and correspondence, and introducing Andy to Seth's closest friends and colleagues. The book also includes revelations and new information about the police investigation, the explosion of the conspiracy theories, and how far up those theories reached in the federal government during the Trump presidency.

 

The Rich story began as a personal one for Andy. He and Seth both moved to DC around the same time, ran in similar social circles, and even played on the same District Sports soccer team at Cardozo High. Andy went on to cover Seth's story for Rolling Stone magazine, where he spent four years as DC bureau chief. What compelled Andy to write a book about it was the realization that Seth's killing, the lack of answers about who did it, and the howling mob that filled that void captured something larger about the trajectory of American life in recent years — and where we might be headed next. As Andy writes in the book, Seth and his family's story is "a skeleton key to the past half-decade in America, unlocking so much about how this country ended up at this strange point in our history."

 

The story told in A Death on W Street will of course hit close to home for Bloomingdale residents, and indeed Andy interviewed Mark Mueller and, yes, the Bloomingdale blog's very own Scott Roberts during his reporting, to name only a few. Yet it's a story that's both local and global, moving from the leafy streets of Bloomingdale to Julian Assange's London exile, from the halls of the Trump White House to the studios of Fox News.

 

The book comes out on Sept. 6. You can preorder it now. Andy is planning to do readings in DC this fall as well. He's reachable anytime via www (dot) andykroll (dot) com.

Here is an image of the book cover: